Interview with S.A. Odunsi, Author of Deep Thinking The Human Condition

About the Author:

Born in Nigeria, Odunsi has lived in Texas for over a quarter century. He makes his living operating 2 small businesses. While he has a BA in business, Odunsi credits his ideas not to his formal education but to his independent investigative efforts.

About the Book:

The concepts presented in the book will open up a dialogue about how we look at our past, present, and future. Odunsi presents new ideas to chronic world problems in a very creative and imaginative way. Arguments presented are well worth debating and studying. With the numerous current global crises taking place, Deep Thinking The Human Condition is highly recommended to those concerned about why we are unable to solve world problems and why it is essential to change our approach when tackling major global plights.

Excerpt

it is intuitively logical that real development, as opposed to shallow modernization, will start in the PUCs (persistently underdeveloped countries) if the graduates of higher education - the leadership class-begin to function with the proficiency in management, entrepreneurship, and invention demonstrated by their counterparts in the developed countries.

(In the PUCs) the bulk of economic growth in modern industry and commerce, as well as its effective maintenance, are disproportionately dependent on the entrepreneurial, managerial, administrative, and inventive efforts, initiatives, and leadership of a distinct ethnic minority or expatriate agents, and not on the rank-and-file members of idigenous population groups.

I was lucky enough to interview the author. This is what he had to say:

What inspired you to write this book?

I was inspired to write the book because I had something new and different to say about the problem of persistent economic development and persistent poverty. I was also driven by the conviction that a viable solution exists for these endemic problems.

Do you have a specific writing style?

Not really. However, the style I use in Deep Thinking is considered by some as academic or scholarly. I must point out, however, that I wrote in this style because the ideas I present are new. So they have to be initially expressed in a textbook or reference style.

How did you come up with the title?

The title is partly a consequence of my ongoing struggle to express the feeling of the idea of the book. It was also motivated by my supreme confidence that any successful attempt to usefully fathom the confused state of the human condition must include the ideas expressed in the book and others in the series. It matters not who is doing the investigation or where on the planet they're located. Any remedy for the endemic problems that omits the premises addressed in the book will not be universally applicable and will likely not endure.